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Eastenders - Michael Moon was too good to be killed off! |
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Eastenders - Michael Moon was too good to be killed off!
A victim of a crap era, I liked him with Janine Butcher!
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A victim of a crap era, I liked him with Janine Butcher!
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He was the best thing about that Era, and he was not in anyway your standard villain, so many layer's to this character. But they did not see the potential he had.
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I disagree as I never liked the character in anyway - I for one was glad to see the back of him, permanently!
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Should never have been killed off, a fascinating character played superbly well. Would have been much better to have left that door open for a possible return. Sacrificing him for janine's exit was ridiculous.
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He was a brilliant character.
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My all-time favourite EE character. I think it was Steve John Shepherd's choice to have him killed off, or at least he was very supportive of the idea as he had no plans to return. He didn't feel the character could realistically continue after everything he'd done.
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He made me switch off for three years.
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Him and Janine were the best thing about the godawful Kirkwood/Newman era. I liked that Michael was unpredictable so you never knew what he was going to do next, and that he also put Janine in her place a few times (like when he had her by the throat against the wall with one hand and fixing his tie with another
). I found his death really good. Yes it was sacrificing an excellent character but I think it was the actor's choice to leave so they may as well have made a good story out of it. Newman did a good job on that and the Halloween episodes were fantastic (maybe DTC had a hand in but when there was no drama in the show for months on end and this happened it was brilliant). |
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I have a feeling if he'd left but wasn't killed off and returned at a latter date he would have became very tiresome one note very quickly.
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I think he left whilst the character was still good.
Sometimes you have to know when to leave the party |
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Loved him he was a brilliant character.
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I think he left whilst the character was still good.
Sometimes you have to know when to leave the party |
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Agreed -I think if he'd stayed much longer there would have been big yawns after a while. Him and Janine did feel like sometimes they were rehashing the same scene from different angles.
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That wasn't unique to them surely? All couples scenes eventually fall victim to that.
The intense mind games between them could become wearing at times. |
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The extent of it felt unique although not the phenomenon itself.
The intense mind games between them could become wearing at times. Just watched when Derek beat him up and he just sat there and cried. |
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should never have been killed off, was great too watch an excellent character, some of his comments were just hillarious. i wish he'd escaped with his daughter.
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He made me switch off for three years.
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He was a brilliant character.
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I suppose wearing someone day is all part of it.
Just watched when Derek beat him up and he just sat there and cried. |
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One of my favourite characters. He reminded me of Moriaty from Sherlock.
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Everyone on here thinks Derek had raped him, after watching it again. I can see where they are comming from, there looks like there is more to it.
Michael was basically a child trapped in a man's body (at least emotionally-wise), and Derek beating him up took him back to his childhood where Derek physically bullied him and he was traumatised by his mother's death. For me, that was why he was crying. |
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SOO SO agree with this!!!!!!!
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Everyone on here thinks Derek had raped him, after watching it again. I can see where they are comming from, there looks like there is more to it.
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I always took it that after actually physically exerting himself for once (during the beating), Derek had to pull his trousers back over his protruding gut. It's not like he actually did his zip up.
Michael was basically a child trapped in a man's body (at least emotionally-wise), and Derek beating him up took him back to his childhood where Derek physically bullied him and he was traumatised by his mother's death. For me, that was why he was crying. The Branning siblings, David Wicks even? |
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